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4 Risks of Retirement Planning

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026 Jared Friedman CFP®Financial Planning

When you think about retirement planning, what comes to mind first? Your savings? Your investments? Whether your money will last? Those are the right questions. They’re just not the whole list. A compelling framework from Chris Heye, Ph.D., published in […]

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Why Interest Rates Are Rising

September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 Jared Friedman CFP®Financial Planning

Everything has a price. A gallon of gas. A house. Your morning cup of coffee. Money has a price, too. And lately, that price has been going up. In August, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury climbed above 5.3%…reaching […]

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What Tariff Refunds and the National Debt Mean for Your Investments

September 1, 2026September 1, 2026 Jared Friedman CFP®Financial Planning

Since new tariffs (which are fees charged on imported goods) were announced last year, global trade has been a source of uncertainty for financial markets and the broader economy. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that the original “Liberation Day” […]

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Slow Progress Builds

August 24, 2026August 24, 2026 Jared Friedman CFP®Financial Planning

In mid-August, the S&P 500 closed at a new all-time high.1 Yet the record arrived quietly. There was no flood of breaking-news alerts. No sense that everyone needed to stop what they were doing and pay attention. A record high isn’t […]

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The Money Lesson We Should’ve Learned in School: Sequence Matters

August 4, 2026August 4, 2026 Jared Friedman CFP®Financial Planning

We learned how to solve equations and prep for tests. What most of us didn’t learn is the order our money should work in. Not the what—save, invest, pay down debt, build a cushion—but the sequence. And sequence is where […]

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Jared Friedman CFP®

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